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Re: Hardaker!!!!
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 10:58 pm
by fozzieskem
It does seem to be gathering pace this one, still think it'll come to naught but its not going away.
Re: Hardaker!!!!
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 1:53 pm
by Wigan_forever1985
Just got an email from Love Rugby League with this as the main headline
does seem to be a lot of smoke around this
Re: Hardaker!!!!
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:01 pm
by medlocke
I hope it's true
Re: Hardaker!!!!
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:22 pm
by Firestarter
I dont get why we would sign a player ,that potentially wont play for two years...... do wigan know something we dont?
Re: Hardaker!!!!
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:26 pm
by Fujiman
Firestarter wrote:I dont get why we would sign a player ,that potentially wont play for two years...... do wigan know something we dont?
my thoughts as well. If we sign him I think he could start straight away.
Re: Hardaker!!!!
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:43 pm
by medlocke
Fujiman wrote:Firestarter wrote:I dont get why we would sign a player ,that potentially wont play for two years...... do wigan know something we dont?
my thoughts as well. If we sign him I think he could start straight away.
Because word has it that it is only going to be a 12 week ban
Re: Hardaker!!!!
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:53 pm
by Fujiman
medlocke wrote:Fujiman wrote:Firestarter wrote:I dont get why we would sign a player ,that potentially wont play for two years...... do wigan know something we dont?
my thoughts as well. If we sign him I think he could start straight away.
Because word has it that it is only going to be a 12 week ban
which would mean it's already been spent?
Re: Hardaker!!!!
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:01 pm
by medlocke
Fujiman wrote:medlocke wrote:Fujiman wrote:my thoughts as well. If we sign him I think he could start straight away.
Because word has it that it is only going to be a 12 week ban
which would mean it's already been spent?
Retrospective was the word i read
Re: Hardaker!!!!
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 6:17 pm
by Wigan_forever1985
This does seem to be gathering a lot of pace and no one has come out to squash it yet but there are three elephants in the room here
1) castleford - why would they let him go? I follow him on Instagram and he has been hanging around with the cas lads and training in cas gear - seems weird he would be cast aside without a substantial monetary incentive to do so
2) position and requirements - we have 2 full backs who are good enough to start, we also signed a centre that somehow wane thinks is good enough to start so if we were to sign Zak as a centre that would mean sarge would need to make way.
3) wage - Zak could command big wage even with his history certainly at the likes of Salford for example where he is a class above their squad. Assuming for a minute that we pay for this with fpn wage that means we are losing a forward in an already lightweight pack - so we would need to spend that money on a forward not another back and we certainly couldn’t afford both with the wage Zak would command
Re: Hardaker!!!!
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:55 pm
by Wiganer Ted
Salary Cap wise there would appear to be linkage between FPN possibly going and maybe Hardaker arriving.
It may depend on what Cas want and any agreement between them and Wigan RL. A rumour a while back was that IL had met the player in London. That could only be done with Cas's permission granted for us to speak with Hardaker.
So what's the deal?
Are Cas about to sack him on formal announcement of the drug test results? For us to sign him they would have had to relinquish his registration at Cas.
Would there be a fee/player exchange?
All great for the Rumour Mill.